Twitter has a new API category with a corresponding price. The API Pro for startups costs $5,000 per month.

Another week, another announcement from Twitter. The social media platform announced its next API subscription, API Pro, aimed at startups. The price of this formula is five thousand dollars per month.

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The $5,000 users pay for API Pro provides developers with one million tweets each month and allows them to post 300,000 per month. Users also have access to the full archive of the search endpoint.

According to Twitter, this formula is ideal for startups looking to grow their business.

Fluctuating pricing policy

It’s another adjustment to Twitter’s API policy. In recent months, the announcement of the elimination of free APIs has quickly been partially withdrawn; Certain content bots and general or public interest accounts were still granted free access to 1,500 tweets per month.

API pricing varies from $100 for the basic package to $42,000 for businesses. This new pricing tier follows complaints from developers and business people that the most expensive formula is impossible for smaller businesses.

Whether API Pro will bring much success remains to be seen, because an annual amount of $60,000 is still a lot of money for many companies and startups.